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    "content": "The Committee is also grateful to the Ministers and heads of Government departments who appeared before the Committee, and also extends gratitude to the Provincial Administration personnel across the country who helped in the mobilization of the people during the public hearings. Lastly, the Committee is particularly grateful to the Office of the Speaker and the office of the Clerk of the National Assembly for the support that it received as we discharged our mandate of reviewing the 2012/2013 Budget Estimates of Expenditure and Revenue. The Committee is further grateful to the Members of Parliament who participated in the process, especially in the public hearings in the aforementioned centres. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is, therefore, my pleasant duty and privilege to, on behalf of the Budget Committee Members, initiate debate on this Report and recommend to the Members to adopt this Report. This Report was tabled yesterday. It has scrutinized and analyzed various documents, including the Budget Policy Statement (BPS), and has endeavoured to link the BPS, the Report adopted by this House to what the Minister for Finance eventually tabled in this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, without delving into the Report because Members are already seized of the same, I must say that we recognize the need to reverse the trend of maintaining high deficits, the Budget Committee in its Report on the BPS recommended to this House budget ceilings specific for the three arms of the Government. A careful review of the Budget Estimates indicates that only the PSC and the JSC adhered to this recommendation of keeping a ceiling of Kshs18.15 billion and Kshs16.4 billion respectively. The Committee recommends that the ceiling for the PSC and JSC be maintained as submitted save for the expenditure adjustments proposed in this Report."
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